Draconian religion is about becoming God yourself.What is God? God is supreme being and everything happens as God wants.But becoming a God yourself is about overcoming duality.Most people have duality: their goals, and reality.their goals rarely match reality, which causes reality to not be accordin
Black swans versus reporting biases- why Believers Stay Believers and Skeptics Stay Skeptics: The Case of Out-of-Body ExperiencesQuestion ## Why Believers Stay Believers and Skeptics Stay Skeptics: The Case of Out-of-Body ExperiencesThe debate over out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and near-death exper
Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.” He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and
Yes! Even Pilate was amazed at how quick Jesus had “died”. Mark 15:44 And it was awfully convenient that he is said to have “died” just before he was about to have his legs broken. The Apostle John said that the two crucified alongside Jesus were still alive six hours after
Over 100 verses preaching the importance of payer; “the parents believe healing comes from God and that they never expected their daughter to die as they prayed for her and summoned others to do the same”. A central Wisconsin couple who prayed rather than seeking medical care for their 11-year-
Seeing that the writers of the gospels were clearly teaching the “return of Christ” would be in their generation and the Bible had nothing to do with me, American, or the 21st century. We can assume the passages in question weren't literal but both most straightforward jesus and paul seemed to think
Sleep induced psychosisLong time ago I talked to some Christian who said that if you go to desert and fast with no food or water and no sleep, you begin to see demons. tho that is unecessary. Lack of sleep on its own is enough. Dehydration isnt necessary, nor is extreme heat or hunger. Extreme medit
Pope Leo ought to back off meddling with president Trump and the US v Iran.After all, the Vatican has depended on the Swiss Guard for their protection since 1506 - over 500 years. Isn't it about time the Vatican have it's own home-grown force, and dress them a little more effectively than a carnival
Ireanarous and augustine had ample opportunity to talk about these topics and never did. Cyprian most straight forwardly rejected ideas like papal supremacy and never mentioned infallibility. You can find argument that communion with Rome was important but whether thats just a first among equals tes
P1. Doing good to someone requires fulfilling their need when they themselves cant fulfill it.P2. Evil means someone has a need which isnt fulfilledP3. "Fulfilling someone's need" requires that someone has a need which isnt fulfilledP4. "Fulfilling someone's need" requires existence of evilP5. Doing
First off the BIBLE doesn't say the woman was "a gentile". As claimed by the Reverend. In the link below, it specifically states that she was a Canaanite. There is only one single bible of all the English bibles written that refers to her a gentile. https://biblehub.com/matthew/15-22.htmRegardless,T
The Problem of Evil (Theodicy): This philosophical argument states that the existence of intense, unnecessary suffering in the world is logically contradictory to the simultaneous existence of an all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-loving God.
What often gets called “the Gospel” in many religious environments is not good news for a developing human being. It is a psychologically invasive framework imposed at a stage when a child cannot meaningfully question or refuse it, and it does not simply shape belief. It actively distorts identity,
This has to be the strangest story in the Gospels: the “raising” of Lazarus. From beginning to end it is vague, ambiguous anomalous and at one time just plain silly. It has Jesus not being able to make up get his story straight or make up his mind and not seeming too bothered about this person he “
Most advanced two AI models take form of Jesus and Machiavelli, and debate each other.https://youtu.be/y40q8Xf1u0o?si=2G0IhC6DEX4nhGb5
Something curious about our American society and its insistence that a particular Court precedent, "separation of church and state," enshrined by the people and many in its government, as if statutory law [i.e., law as legislated by Congress]. But no, "separation" is merely Court precedent. Typicall
https://youtu.be/yRVMrmKDs2w?si=W5JS8BS9tssBAE-Gtwo most advanced AI models debate each other, one as "Jesus", one as "Satan".
I thought id tickle the atheists with this one. Recently ive gone from saying philosophical evidence for god counts as evidence to saying it doesnt count. My reasoning is that only loosely should philosophy alone count as evidence... in concrete terms scientifically and legally and even philosophica
"Let's assume God wants to tell the human race about hell. It's a big deal, hell is. Affects a lot of people.So here's what God does:1. He doesn't warn humanity of it from the get-go, but rather tells Adam and Eve that the consequence of their fall was that they were now mortal, and that they would
In Revelation 22:18-19 we are warned that no man should add to or take away what is written."And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in
Whereas you believe that God watches evil and is unwilling or unable to stop itWe are not the same
Can AI pray?I purposefully opened Google, knowing it has surrendered its brain to AI., and asked the question that is this post's title. The fact is, AI has no soul, therefore, no spirituality. It knows what prayer is by dictionary definition, and can probably cite a fair number of prayers, but what
"'Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.' I... belive without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builderes of Babel." - Benjamin Franklin, 1789You will recall, since y'all profess to know the Holy Bible, how successful buil
Sure there are people with childish conceptions of god and jesus so what do atheists do? They hold god up to those childish conceptions. instead of the mature approach of asking if god is or could be real what would he be like? Basically they strawman god instead of steelmaning god
# Why Are We Here? Why Must We Die?*"Life is the arena where faith, love, and free will become real. Death and suffering are not good in themselves, but they create the conditions in which the deepest forms of love, trust, courage, and dependence on God can emerge."*Why are we on earth?Why do we suf
Exorcist vincent lampert discusses exorcism and spiritual warfare https://share.google/HHUn8IBR23B3zA6FM
Your reasoning is logically strong if we distinguish love from approval, trust, or lack of boundaries.In the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, the command to "love your enemies" is significant because enemies are precisely the people who have not met any condition that would make them easy to love. If
Imperium Deus means "Government is God".this religion is followed by greatest number of people in the world, who believe government is the ultimate God judge on all moral issues and ultimate authority of truth.this religion is followed by government cult followers, called Cultor administrationis, wh
Church scholars push for adherence to early church teachings but jesus also said the spirit will lead us to truth and often theres even more uncertainty in the early church than even all the interpretations of the bibleThis hit on one of the most profound and liberating truths of Christian history—a
This is more a discussion for/about various pagan religions in the west, but I welcome the perspective of others as well. The internet has done much to spread knowledge of smaller religions, but how effective has it made these religions spread? Is there a “cap” to the growth of these religions?
